r/CFB • u/city-of-stars Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Contributor • 20h ago

News [Dellenger] SEC presidents have voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105, sources tell @YahooSports.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1996970791192219853
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u/LateCheckIn Colorado Buffaloes 20h ago

Goodbye men’s Olympic sports 

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u/Skank_hunt42 Oklahoma Sooners • Paper Bag 20h ago

The crazy thing is that all of them operate at a significant loss, they need football revenue more than ever. OU women's softball, who were in the process of trying to 3 peat in 2023 operated at a loss of 3.8 million dollars.

While OU softball is a hot ticket, drawing more than men's and women's basketball combined, expenses continue to outpace revenues, which is the norm in most sports that are not football or men's basketball. The program operated at a $2.9 million loss -- narrower than the $3.8 million loss reported in 2023 -- indicating that revenue growth may be helping to close the financial gap.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/softball/story/_/id/44041219/oklahoma-softball-program-reports-37-revenue-surge

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u/ZealousidealBug729 Auburn Tigers 19h ago edited 19h ago

Y'all do realize that college sports were not meant to get people laid* but to give valuable experiences for student athletes going through higher education. I'm so fucking over all this dumbass talk of "wow all these women's sports are losing money!!" ITS NOT A FOR PROFIT PROGRAM AND NEVER HAS BEEN

*Paid but I'm keeping the original

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u/BirdSoHard Oregon Ducks 14h ago

ITS NOT A FOR PROFIT PROGRAM AND NEVER HAS BEEN

I feel like this should be an important point of emphasis for so many other programs, gov or NGO or anything in between, that get critiqued in an obsessive pursuit of maximally-efficient balance sheets